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Prohibition of Opium.
Translation of Memorandım handed to Sir John Jordan
by the Ministers of the Wal Wu Pu on November 29th, 1906.
Memorandum begins by quoting Imperial Decree of Sep-
tember 20th commanding the complete abolition of opium
smoking within ten years, and directing the Council for
Government Affairs to elaborate a scheme for carrying out
this measure.
Momorandum proceeds as follows:
The Council of Government Affairs having now drawn up
a scheme in ten Articles, which was submitted to the
Throne on November 21st an Edict was issued sanctioning
the proposals.
The 10th Article of these proposals deals with the
question of foreign opium, which is imported from other
countries.
(Article X of the Anti-cpiwa Regulations quoted at
length).
The Prince and Ministers of the Wal Wu Pu, having now
received copies of this document from the Grand Council,
and having known for some time past that His Britannic
Majesty's
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